Word: genially
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...journalists to issue yet another appeal to world opinion for Soviet political prisoners. There he counsels and often gives needed sanctuary to other colleagues in dissent. Tall, stoop-shouldered, quick to smile, his gray hair a fringe around his bald crown, Sakharov looks, in these conversations, more like a genial professor holding forth at a home seminar than a man in the process of defying the world's most powerful Communist state. Indeed, the odds of winning his challenge seem so impossible that he sometimes calls himself, with self-deprecating humor, Andrei Blazhenny-a Russian word that connotes both...
...Genial as old friends meeting...
...cloud of ozone. The plot is not all that original either. All through the seemingly ceaseless running time - nearly 2½ hours, and considerably trimmed from the Russian version - one is put longingly in mind of Forbidden Planet. A lightheaded piece of American scifi, Forbidden Planet (1956) was a genial reworking of The Tempest in which some American astronauts were trapped on a distant planet. There a wizard, a stand-in for Prospero, conjured up an unconquerable force field of "monsters from the id." Hearing this, one of the astronauts inquired without hesitation, "What's the id?" The people...
With his somewhat wooden speaking style, Thompson campaigned intelligently and energetically seven days a week. The strapping (6 ft. 6 in., 200 Ibs.) Thompson also put on slacks and cowboy boots to appear more folksy. He pictured the genial but ineffectual Hewlett, who had been Illinois' secretary of state, as the embodiment of old-style politics. Thompson now has his work cut out for him: he has only a two-year term and faces a cantankerous legislature controlled by the Democrats. But his smashing win has catapulted him into national prominence as a possible Republican presidential contender...
...plot is coming true for Sylvester ("Sly") Stallone, 30, a brash, genial bit-actor who wrote the script Rocky in three days, and held out against the producers, James Caan and Burt Reynolds, to star in it himself. Jaded preview audiences are giving it ovations, and much of Hollywood is assuming that star and movie will be up for Oscars next year. "I can't recall such excitement about a new movie and a new star since maybe Giant and James Dean," gloats United Artists Boss Mike Medavoy. Says TV's Norman Lear: "That movie sent me through...